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Early (perhaps the earliest) Soviet state-sponsored project for the publication of a comprehensive series, embracing all the major literatures of the world, so that "the citizens of Russia will have at their disposal all the treasures of poetry and artistic prose, all that has been created during a century and a half by the efforts of European spirit."--P. 20. The catalog lists hundreds of titles which Gorky and his Committee planned to publish Topics: IzdatelÊ¹stvo "VsemirnaiÍ¡a literatura", Literature, Modern